Dan Willey has been home leave from Norfolk, VA; Tucker and V. Cook on coast; Bertha Maki has been transferred to Arlington, VA; A coconut fell thru the top of Buford Kaa's tent in the S. Pacific. The coconut kid!

Dan Willey is getting salty at Hutchinson, KS; Ruth Shannon, glassware, is now a qualified private pilot. Who wants a ride?; Boy! Did it rain and hail Memorial day! .80 of an inch of water in 30 minutes; Lyle Cleveland has a new Labrador hunting...

Montana now has 30,000 in the Armed Forces; Rachael Birrer and Bob Blodgett met in Australia; Mickey Bates recovered his bike. It had been stolen and dismanteled by boys; Scout Master Max Cook and 16 Boy Scouts made the trip to Helena to state...

Dr. Jellison has gone to the National Museum at Washington D.C. for about three weeks to study mites; And does it rain! 3.74 in. from June 1st to June 27th; Miss Mary Hall, of Olympia, Wash., is the new Librarian; Harley Nicol has been assigned to...

Ross Erickson and Ed Marx bought the Valley Merc. Furniture store; Wes Cook tood a trip to the West Coast to visit Virgil; It still gets cold nights. About 45 defrees F; Geo. Privett is in Italy after escaping a German prison camp in Africa.

Roy Smaus home on leave. Roy has seen action in the South Pacific; Mrs. Buford Kaa is convelscing from a recent operation; Salt elevator in boiler room now installed and working; Manley Miller home on leave, visited the Lab.

Letter written by the editor; Calvin Carpenter has been reported as ill in a Bethesda, Maryland hospital; Sgt. Don Marx has a 30 day furlough at home; Lt. Lois Kildow returns to Hospital assignment in Brigham, Utah.

Mrs. Moore goes on vacation; Frank Merritt has been caught around the Lab several times with a bunch of roses; Only about 16 monkeys here now. More mice being used; Roy Smaus at sea, sends dozen roses for Mrs. Smaus' birthday.

Dr. Brennan is to make biological investigations of chigger mites; Avery Johnson gets deet up Lost Horse; Mrs. Smaus received word from Roy saying that he is back on ship; Harley Sargent & Lyle Cleveland went hunting up Blodgett Canyon, no luck.

Mary Walker says the chicken mites on her ranch are no under control; Alvin Butler back on job after being off on sick leave; Giles Burch on vacation, up fish Creek, fishing and hunting; Wm. Jellison and Nick Kramis are on a field trip.

Mickey Bates came in Nov. 15 with a deer and an elk; Sugar beet harvest in the Bitter Root ends; Truman Smith and Charles Bennett each got a a nice buck just over the Big Hole hill; Major and Mrs. Glen Kohls spent four days visiting in Spokane.

Everybody is getting out their fishing gear again. Whitefish this time; A benefit dance was given by the V.F.W. for the family of Sid Mann last week. Sid in the Veterans hospital in Helena; Just Married: Lenora Cole and Don Van Cleve - Marion Julia...

Walt Maki was awarded the attendance prize at the Elks last meeting; Dr. Jellison gave an illustrated lecture on his experiences in India to the Woman's club; Alice Huxol showed up at the Lab one day with a cute two year old in tow. To practically...

Word has been received by his wife that Fritz Zoske is now in the Philippines; Wilma Buchanan is back at work after her recent hospitalization; Some sheep and a few chickens have been added to out animal department; Mr. & Mrs. Rollin Barrett have...

Melvin Kohler has resigned; Mary Walker has been in charge of a 10 hour Red Cross course in first aid at the high school; George Tallent writes from Virginia that he has his news assignment now at Chinoteague, VA., and expects to be there six...

Dr. Jellison is back at work after his series of lectures at the University of Chicago; New additions to the animal department these day, two cats and a dog; Mary Walker is having to haul water again this spring. Hers isn't the only one that's dry,...

Cecil Stephen writes that he has been getting the Lab News regularly, and likes it very much. Thanks for them kind words!; A study of work among the Navajo Indians was given by Mrs. J. A. Brennan, at a meeting of the Presbyterian Missionary...

O.M. Gerer, 70 year old rancher on the west side, taken by death; Mrs. Donald Gordon underwent a major operation at a Missoula hospital; Frank Merritt just received a V-Mail letter from George Lay. George is still in the south Pacific. Glad to hear...

The Stockroom is being remolded and a brick wall put in instead of the iron work over the stairway; Byron Thrailkill now rides herd on the Hamilton Elks; Arthur Whitcomb tells us that he is already for fishing season to open in eighteen days, three...

Hamilton High School placed fifth in the State Track Meet. The grade school won first in the county grade track meet; Maybelle Callender, animal department, has been off the job with a tonsil operation; A few days before leaving, Maj. Jellison went...

The shop boys sent a bouquet of roses to the hospital, accompanied by one of Sherman's inimitable cards, showing the patient as the recipient of no end of favors by the whole nursing staff. Mr. Cole said he endeavored to use it as propaganda but...

Giles Burch of the animal department had sold his farm and bought a home in Hamilton; Dick Greenup is in the hospital, apparently with a Lab infection. No details yet; Selma is back full time now, so Mary Hieronymus has resumed her "retirement";...

Mrs. Kaa tells us to hold Buford's copy of the news, as he'll be along soon, too; Because we have had a cold late spring ticks are still out, and we are still shipping vaccine; The boiler room crew had to get busy and clean out the oil tanks. They...

Alvin Butler has sold his West Side ranch to Floyd Haley of the Post Office; A little twister which came out of a squal in the mountains west of Stevensville left an 18 in tree across the power line, and the upper valley was without power for from...

Lyle Cleveland is taking 2 weeks vacation; Dan Willey has resigned his position in the Tick room, leaving Tom Donica once again alone up there; Wes Cook is back in harness after a long vacation from his job in the B.E. Shop; About 150 men are...

Lt. Jimmie Van Blaricom and Sgt. Charles Duus were quests of the Lions club and told of their experiences as German POW's; Dr. Hargett has a new rank, Sr. Surgeon; Edgar Pickens claims that he is now the owner of one very fine little saddle mare;...

The mother of Mrs. Frank Merritt has been very ill for the past week; Buford Kaa was on of three candidates initiated into the Elks at their last meeting; Art Whitcomb finds that there are still tricks to fishing up the West Fork he got an...

Mary Walker has quit farming. She sold her ranch to Barrett Richardson and two of her horses to Jack Coultas' daughter of Darby; Duck Season will open Sept. 20 for 80 days. The bag limit on most ducks will be 10 instead of 15, with no open season...

Lawrence Humble took several California hunters out and all got elks; Earl Malone and Swede Cole got an elk between them; Dr. Brennan has been helping County Nurse Miss Hoyendahl do some de-lousing and some de-bedbugging with DDT; In a recent...

Mary Walker and Bill Bates each got an elk calf. Mickey packed it out for them; Pheasant hunting has been pretty good this fall. Birds are in good shape, too; Byron Thrailkill is laid up with a bad back. He has had two pair of crutches donated to...

Viola Zimmerman and Leslie LeRoy Howard were married in Missoula November 20; Aage Nygaard is back in Hamilton and has opened a radio repair shop; The termination of a number of war service appointments has been announed but has not yet taken...

White fishing was pretty good till the cold wave hit. Maybe its good now, only who wants to find out?; Carl Gustafson still in Hospital in Spokane; O.P. Little is one of the instructions in the Corvallis Rifle Club; Cal See was named to the board...

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